Method of cutting stocking-blanks



Patented May 1,1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARTIN LANDENBERGER, JR, F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

METHOD OF CUTTING STOCKlNG-BLANKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 276,832, dated May 1, 1883.

Application filed September 29, 1882. (N0 model.) i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARTIN LANDENBER- GER, Jr., a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented an Improvement in Cutting Stocking-Blanks from Webs of Fabric, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in cutting out stockings from flat webs of fabric, the object of my invention being to produce perfectlyshaped blanks without excessive waste of fabric.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a diagram illustrating my improved method of cutting out stockings; Fig. 2, a view of one of the completed stocking-blanks, and Fig. 3

. a view of a stocking made therefrom.

In carrying out my invention I take a flat web of knitted fabric and cut the same into stocking-blanks in the manner shown in Fig.

*1, the blanks occupying such relations to each other that the calf portion of one blank will coincide with the foot and ankle portions of the adjacent blanks, so as to save waste. Each blankhas, as usual, a narrow projecting tongue,

'01., for the foot, and incision b b to form the length of said tongue that it suffices only for the top of the foot, a separate strip, g, Fig. 2, being sewed to the tongue a in order to form the bottom or sole of the foot, as shown in Fig. 3. By this meaus'the length of'the striplf is reduced more than one-half, and excessive waste is prevented.

By cutting the blanks from flat webs in the manner described, the tongue a may bemade as narrow and the incisions b as deep as desired, so that the width and depth of the heel are not limited, as in the case of a tube divided centrally to form the foot-piece.

I am aware that it is old to use a separate sole-piece, g, in making out stockings, and I do not broadly claim this; but

I claim as my invention- As an improvement in cutting stockingblanks from flat webs of fabric, the mode herein described, which consists in arranging the blanks in alternating order, as described, and forming oneach blank a tongue, 11, of a length sufficient only for the top of the foot, whereby the length of the waste pieces f is reduced, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MARTIN LANDENBERGER, JR.

Witnesses:

HARRY DRURY, HARRY SMITH. 

